A postwoman from Haute-Savoie and her companion were placed in pre-trial detention, suspected of having stolen checkbooks and bank cards from mailboxes, and incurred expenses for damage provisionally estimated at 133,000 euros, a-t- we learned on Friday from a judicial source.
Their arrest on December 14 follows "reconciliations made between different complaints filed during the spring" with the community of brigades of Cruseilles and Valleiry, the Thonon-les-Bains prosecutor's office told AFP, confirming a information from the
liberated Dauphiné
.
Aged 34, this employee was in charge of the tour of the neighboring towns of Vulbens and Digny-en-Vuache.
Her partner is 26 years old.
According to the Dauphiné Libéré, the complaints of the inhabitants concerned in particular "fraudulent withdrawals made using bank cards to be distributed to them by mail but which they had never received".
According to the regional daily, the damage linked to withdrawals and counterfeit checks would amount to 133,000 euros, "a first evaluation", specifies the prosecution.
At the end of their police custody, they were indicted, within the framework of a judicial investigation opened on December 15 by the Thonon-les-Bains prosecutor's office, into charges, in particular, of thefts committed by a person responsible for of a public service mission and scams, before being remanded in custody.
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